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Daneesh Jamal

Criminal Defense Department Paralegal

Jamal joined MLFA in 2025. He graduated from Rice University in 2024 with a B.A. in Sociology, specializing in Politics, Law, and Social Thought. While at Rice, Jamal edited the Rice Journal of Public Policy in the Baker Institute, submitted articles to the Rice Asian Studies Review, conducted research with the Texas Historical Commission at the nearby Varner Hogg Plantation on the lives of enslaved people, inter alia. He is deeply interested in questions of law, ethics, and sovereignty, especially how these concepts are transformed and rearranged under the modern state. Jamal hopes to explore these questions more when attending law school. Shout out to Wael Hallaq’s Impossible State trilogy for inspiring me to become a lawyer! As a paralegal, he seeks to advocate for those without a voice and defend against abuses of governmental authority.